Exodus

Exodus 23 ©

1 Laws concerning slander, false witness, and partial favouring of the poor; 4 charitableness; 6 justice in judgment; 8 taking bribes; 9 oppressing a stranger; 10 the year of rest; 12 the sabbath. 13 A caution against idolatry. 14 Laws concerning the three set feasts; 18 the blood and fat of the sacrifice; and the firstfruits. 20 An Angel is promised for a guide, with a blessing, if they obey him.

1

THOU ashalt not 1raise a false report: bput not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

a ch. 20.16. Ps. 15.3. 1Sa. 24.9. Le. 19.16. Pr. 25.23.
b Ps. 35.11. De. 19.16,19,21. v.1,10. Mat. 26.54,60. Ac. 6.11,13.
2

¶Thou cshalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou 2speak in a cause to *decline after many to *wrest judgment :

c Ge. 6.12. Ro. 12.2. Le. 19.15. De. 1.17; 16.19. Ep. 5.7,11. Ps. 10.1,10-18.
3

¶Neither shalt thou dcountenance a poor man in his cause.

d Ps. 82.2,3; 58.1. Le. 19.15,32. Zec. 8.16; 7.9,10. De. 16.19.
4

¶If thou emeet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again.

e De. 22.1-3. Job24.3; 31.29. Pr. 24.17; 25.21. Mat. 5.44. Ro. 12.20. Lu. 6.27. Phi. 2.4. 1Th. 5.15.
5

fIf thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, 3and wouldest forbear to help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

f De. 22.4. Ga. 6.2.
6

Thou shalt not g*wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

g Ps. 82.4. De. 16.19; 24.17; 27.19. 1Sa. 8.2. Pr. 14.31; 28.3. Job 31.13. Ec. 5.8. Is. 10.1,2.
7

hKeep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for iI will not justify the wicked.

h 1Th. 5.22. Job22.28. Pr. 4.14,15. v.2.
i ch. 34.7. Ro. 2.1,2. Pr. 17.15.
8

¶And jthou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth 4the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

j De. 16.19. Ac. 24.26. Pr. 17.23; 19.6. Is. 1.23. Ec. 7.7. 1Sa. 8.3. Eze. 22.12.
9

¶Also kthou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the 5heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

k ch. 22.21,22. Le. 19.33. De. 10.18,19; 24.14,17.
10

And lsix years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

l Le. 25.2-4,20. De. 15.9.
11

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy 6oliveyard.

12

mSix days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

m ch. 20.8,10; 16.23,26; 31.15,16; 35.2,3. De. 5.13-15. Ne. 13.15-22. Je. 17.21,22. Is. 58.13; 56.2,3,6. Lu. 13.11,14; 23.56.
13

And in all things that I have said unto you be ncircumspect: and omake no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

n Ep. 5.15. De. 12.32.
o De. 12.3. Jos. 23.7. Ho. 2.17. Zec. 13.2. Ps. 16.4. 1Jn. 5.21.
14

pThree times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

p De. 16.16. v.17. ch. 34.23. Le. 23.5-44. 2Ch. 8.13.
15

qThou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: rand none shall appear before me empty:)

q ch. 13.3; 12.15,18; 34.18. Le. 23.5-8. Nu. 28.17. De. 16.8.
r De. 16.16,17. Pr. 3.9. ch. 34.20. 1Sa. 6.3.
16

And the sfeast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the tfeast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

s Le. 23.10,15,16. ch. 22.29; 34.22. De. 16.9,10. Nu. 28.26. Ac. 2.1; 20.16.
t ch. 34.22. Le. 23.24-36. Nu. 29.12-38. De. 16.13. 1Ki. 8.62-66. Ne. 8.13-18. Zec. 14.16.
17

Three times in the year all uthy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

u De. 12.5-7; 16.16. ch. 34.23,24. v.14.
18

Thou vshalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my 7sacrifice wremain until the morning.

v ch. 12.8,15; 34.25. Le. 2.11. De. 16.3,4.
w ch. 12.10; 16.19; 29.34. Le. 7.15. Nu. 9.12. De. 16.4.
19

xThe first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. yThou shalt not *seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

x ch. 34.26; 22.29. De. 12.5-7. Pr. 3.9; 8.17. Le. 2.12.
y De. 14.21. ch. 34.26. Pr. 12.10. Je. 10.2,3.
20

zBehold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the aplace which I have prepared.

a Ge. 12.7; 15.18. Jn. 14.2. Mat. 22.4; 25.34. He. 11.16.
z ch. 33.2,14; 14.19. 1Co. 10.9,10. Ps. 121.4-8. Jos. 5.13,14. Is. 63.9-13.
21

Beware bof him, and obey his voice, cprovoke him not; for he will not dpardon your transgressions: for my ename is in him.

b Ps. 2.10-12. Mat. 17.5. He. 2.3; 10.29; 12.25.
c Ps. 78.40,56.
d Nu. 14.35. He. 3.11,19; 10.26-29. 2Ki. 24.4.
e Col. 2.9. Jn. 10.30; 5.23,24. Ac. 17.31.
22

But if thou shalt indeed fobey his voice, and do all that I speak; then gI will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and 8an adversary unto thine adversaries.

f ch. 19.5. Ps. 81.13.
g Ge. 12.2,3. Nu. 24.9. De. 30.7. Je. 30.20.
23

hFor mine Angel shall go before thee, and ibring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

h Is. 63.9; 42.16. Jos. 24.11. ch. 3.8; 33.2,3; 34.11,24. v.20. Ge. 12.7; 13.15; 15.18-21. De. 7.1.
i ch. 13.5.
24

Thou jshalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: kbut thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down ltheir images.

j ch. 20.5. Le. 18.3. De. 12.31,32; 11.16. 1Jn. 5.21.
k ch. 34.13. De. 12.2,3; 7.5,25. Nu. 33.52. 2Ki. 10.27; 23.8,12.
l 2Ki. 18.4; 23.14.
25

And mye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

m De. 7.13,15; 28.1-14. Le. 26.1-13. ch. 15.26. Ps. 103.3; 147.3. Is. 63.9; 61.1-3. Je. 30.17.
26

¶There nshall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: othe number of thy days I will fulfil.

n De. 7.14. Job 21.9-12; 22.21; 42.17. Ps. 144.12,13.
o Ge. 15.15. ch. 20.12. De. 5.16. Ps. 55.23.
27

I will send my pfear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their 9backs unto thee.

p v.28. ch. 14.24; 15.16. De. 2.25; 28.10. Ge. 35.5. Jos. 10.10; 2.9; 5.1. 2Sa. 5.24. 2Ki. 7.6.
28

And qI will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

q Jos. 24.12. De. 7.20.
29

I will rnot drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

r De. 7.22. Jos. 11.18; 14.7,10. Ju. 1; 4. Job17.9. Pr. 4.18.
30

By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

31

And sI will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will tdeliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

s v.23. ch. 3.8. De. 11.24. Ge. 15.18-21. Nu. 34.1-16; 32. Jos. 1.4. 1Ki. 4.21,24.
t Jos. 21.44.
32

Thou ushalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

u ch. 34.12,15. De. 7.2,5,16,25. Jos. 23.7,12; 9.6,7.
33

They vshall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

v ch. 34.12. Nu. 25.1,2. De. 7.16,25. Jos. 23.13. Ju. 2.3. Ps. 106.36. Pr. 13.14,20. 1Sa. 18.21.